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Re:Sunsetting Mercurial Support in Bitbucket by jschwartzi on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @12:52PM (#20749118)
Yeah, my experience fits. I spent about 6 months at my first job trying to understand and use Git with AOSP. In contrast, my second job used Mercurial and I learned how to do everything Git could do in about 2 weeks, then never looked back. I always groan when someone has to use Git.

I think people tolerate Git because they really like Github.

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Re:Sunsetting Mercurial Support in Bitbucket by kjeetgill on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @03:27PM (#20750962)
> I think people tolerate Git because they really like Github.

I mean, I'll add to the pile of anecdotes this thread is accumulating but I don't know if it'll convince you that people are genuine:

I struggled to learn git, but it was also my first VCS. I've needed to muck with hg a few times and vastly prefer git. Hg was fine. It didn't win my heart or anything. But it also didn't let me (at the time) branch as quickly and trivially and it was slow as hell.

Sure, that need/want may not win a hg user to git, but I'd hardly call that tolerating git.

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